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Build The Mentor’s Friend


Build your own technology mentoring platform in a single afternoon, then spend hours of fun with your child or grandchild making simple computer games or exploring computer-controlled hardware circuits together!


Are you looking for a way to contribute to the next generation of scientists and engineers, perhaps in your own family? Well then... Build the Amigo, better known as "The Mentor's Friend." It's a Propeller-based, retro-computer style platform that you build yourself, to teach and experiment with introductory programing along with some electronics fundamentals.

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Nicknamed "The Amigo," you can read the full length article, collect all the parts, then build your own. If you'd rather have the convenience of a complete kit, as luck would have it, they're available in the Nuts & Volts webstore.

Get The Kit and Start Experimenting!